The Dramatic Works of Molière, Vol. 1: Rendered Into English (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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It is always difficult to state when a playwright has taken from any other author, for the saying, yo proud: mon oz'on partout ou jo lo from/o, has covered, and still covers, a multitude of literary sins. More over, Moliere possessed a power of absorption and assimilation which enabled him so to vivify the ma terials he borrowed that they became new creations of incomparable value. In this sense, to take an idea or a mere thought from another author can hardly be called an imitation; and though Moliere, in his first two or three plays, translated several scenes from Italian authors, he has scarcely ever done so in his latter pieces. To mention which of his comedies I consider, or rather which are generally thought, the best, would be difficult, where everything is so emi nent; for in all his plays characters will be found which demonstrate his thorough knowledge of human nature, and display his genius. To discover these little peculiarities in which the specific difl'erence of character consists; to distinguish between what men do from custom or fashion, and what they perform through their own natural idiosyncracy; to select.

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